‘Euphoria’ reveals fate of major character after death cliffhanger

Warning: This story contains spoilers from the May 17 episode of “Euphoria.”

“Euphoria” fans can breathe a sigh of relief now that Rue Bennett's fate has been revealed.

The character portrayed by Zendaya on HBO's gritty drama (Sundays, 9 ET/PT and streaming on HBO Max) lived to fight another day in the new episode, titled "Stand Still and See," after a cliffhanger left her literally buried up to her neck in problems.

Just as Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) was about to kill Rue with a polo mallet while she was buried, she characteristically managed to talk her way out of the situation.

Rue frantically offered to help get Alamo's money back, calling Faye (Chloe Cherry) up on the phone and devising a plan to get a safe key from Wayne (Toby Wallace). After some convincing, Faye agreed to help, and Alamo backed off.

The dramatic moment came after a dramatic start to Season 3.

Debuting on April 12, Season 3 jumped five years into the future of the fictional East Highland students. Rue began the season working as a drug mule to pay off her debts to dealer Laurie. However, after meeting crime kingpin/strip club owner Alamo Brown during one of her runs for Laurie, she starts working for him instead.

By the end of Episode 3, Rue is pulled over by DEA officers. She ultimately becomes an informant to save herself from doing time for drug trafficking.

But during Episode 5, titled "This Little Piggy," Rue's concerns extend far beyond serving prison time. After one of Alamo's dancers, Magick (Rosalía), informs him that Rue tried to frame her by putting cocaine in her locker, he begins questioning Rue’s loyalty − and sets out to get answers.

After meeting Rue at a restaurant, where she's dining with Maddy Perez (Alexa Demie), Alamo forces her into a waiting truck. She's instructed to surrender her phone, driven to a remote location with a shovel sticking out of the ground and told by G (Marshawn Lynch) to "start digging."

She obliges, digging until the soil reaches her neck, but when she asks for help out of the hole, Bishop (Darrell Britt-Gibson) picks up the shovel and begins to bury her.

Meanwhile, Alamo pokes around for more information, asking Maddy if she trusts Rue. “I do,” Maddy responds. “She’s a little crazy, but she has a good heart.”

Things come to a head – quite literally − at the end of the episode when morning arrives and Alamo is found standing in a stable beside his horse. “Some people don’t even deserve to be trusted," he says.

Back at the deserted location, Rue, with just her head poking out above the earth, says, “I don’t know what I did to deserve this. But this is extreme.”

Alamo, on horseback, comes quickly galloping while swinging a polo mallet. Rue repeatedly pleads for him to stop before the screen fades to black.